patrol here it becomes a village because people gather around. >> host: in the case of srebrenica you don't think peacekeepers could have done anything more than they did? >> guest: they did not have the resources. they could have fought but they didn't have the sort of weapons that are required to outgun and out drive them. >> host: but when its own government had its own commission, the whole government -- [inaudible] >> guest: it was an impossible situation to put those troops in. i used to talk to a lot of the commanders and i think i have made this point earlier, where they would say yes we can stand in fact and take them on today. let's say you have a thousand dutch shoulders and they come with reinforcements of 10,000 tomorrow and they have no means of getting reinforcements. another time the cover wasn't that effective so the commander sometimes make judgments that we on the outside may not agree with but we also know the mandate, what is important is when we are going to take on these operations we should go in when the necessary -- with the necessary force to be able to get